Method of and apparatus for laying reenforcing plates in the manufacture of tire liners



MORAN Y E! J METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR LAYING REENFORCING PLATES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TIRE LINERS Filed May 5 1922 50muuunuuuuunuuuuuugunnunuuu 151 Men for Patented Ang. 21, 1923. i

s resist s i? EDWAR s ORAN, or cnIcAeo, rLLrnoIs.

METHOD or AND Arriina rns ron LAYING annnroncrne PLATES "In THE MANU- r Y 1 rac'runn or man LINERS. r

iippiication filed May 5,1922. Serial No.'558,682.

To all whomitmay concern: ment of the container and of the lifter, ust

Be it known thatl, EDWARD J, MORAN, a after the lifterhas been raised with a row 55 citizen of the United Stateajresiding at of plates adheringto the same; Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, Fig. '4l is;a section taken approximately have invented a certain new and useful Imon line 4L l of Fig. 3;

provement in ls'iethods of and Apparatus Fig. 5 is a verticalsection taken through" for Laying R f ing'Plate5 in the Manthe lifter and the work during the process 60 ufacture of Tire Liners, and declare the of laying down the plates onthe work; and following torbe a full 1 ,.a id exact de- "Fig. 6 is a'section 'through fa completed 10 scription. of the same, such'jas will enable liner having the-reinforcing plates imbedothers skilled in the art to which it pertains ded therein.- I 7 1' v to make and usethe same, reference being 7 Referring to Fig. 6,1-"and 2 represent 65 had to the. accompanying drawings; which the upper and lower layers Lora tire liner. form. a part of this specification. Between-the twofll'ayers are two rows, 3 and There are severaltypes f 11 for auto- 4, of overlapping metal reinforcing plates.

mobile tireswhich serverto form an armor ofanyusnal size or shape theljplates of. i for an inner tube; each liner being in the the lower row 3 being firstlaid on the lower 7 70 form of a long rubber strip having imlayer 1 inproper spaced r l ti t h bedded therein thin'nietal plates arranged other, and the plates of the other row bein a plurality of rows extending longitudiing then, laid upon the first row in stagnally of the strip, each row being-made up gered relation to the plates of the first row." f arlarge number f ll l t rra ed Of course any desired number of rows 0f75 in a definite spaced relation to each other, plates may be employed but, as my invenand the plates of one row overlapping the tion may be illustrated in its application to plates of the adjacent row or rows. In the a liner having two rows of'plates, I have manufacture of these liners it is essential selected this simple form for the purpose of i that the reinforcing plates be properly loexplaining my invention. 7 w 80 cated but, because of the large number of- In accordance with my invention It em such plates used in the inanufactu're of a ploy a container 5 whose length is as great single liner, it has heretofore, been rather as that of the liner to be manufactured or an expensive and tedious process properly at least as great as the length of a row of to place the plates in position. v reinforcing plates whichthe liner is adapt-' 'The object of the present invention is to ed to contain. The container is divided into produce a simpleand novel method ofsand compartments 6 by transverse partitions 7 apparatus for quickly and accurately plac- Q whose thickness is approximately equal to ing an entire row of plates in a liner by a. the spacingbetween the plates in the liner;

i -1 peration, j each compartment being of" approximately 90 The various features of novelty whereby the same size and shapeas one of the plates my invention is characterized will hereinso as to permit it to receive a stack of such 40 after he pointed out with particularity in plates. It will therefore be seen that when the claims; but, for a full understanding the container is filled with stacks of the 7' l of my invention and of its objects and adreinforcing plates the uppermost plates in i vantages, reference may be had tothe folthe row of stacks will lie in precisely the lowing detailed description taken in consamev relation to each other as the plates nection with the accompanying drawing, in one row in the finished liner, Therefore,

wherein: if the top plate is lifted from each of the Figure 1 is a top plan view of the constacks in such a wayas not to disturb the 100 tainer'for stacks of reinforcing plates; positions of such top plates relatively to Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the container each other, there will be at hand a complete together with-the plate'lifter ready to pick row of reinforcing plates ready to be set up a row of plates from the container; into the liner. The lifting of the upper" Fig. 3 is a view on an enlarged scale, the most plates from-the stacksin the container container being shown in section, of a fragand the transfer thereof to a liner in the.

'with some cementitious substance, preferably a rubber cement.

The lifter is then placed over the container so that each finger lies directly over the center of one of the stacks and,- upon pressing down on the lifter the cementitious substance on the ends of the fingers will adhere to the top plates of the row of stacks and, when the lifter is .raised, each finger will carry on its lower end one of the plates. Thus in Figs. 3 and 4 the stacks of plates are indicated. at A while the individual plates are indicated at at If desired, the bottom of each compartment in the container will be provided with ya cush10n,.as indicated at 10, so as to compensate' for any inequalities in the heights of the several stacks and insure that each finger will be firmly pressed against the top of the corresponding stack, even though the stacks are not all initially of exactly the same height.

The lifter, with its row of reinforcing plates attached thereto, is then set upon the bottom layer of a liner as illustrated in Fig.

"5 and, on the ends of the plates which pro- 'ect be 0nd the fin ers at one side of the l .V 2-; V

' latter, I lay or hold a bar 11 while the lifter is being tilted so as to carry the top thereof away from a vertical plane passing through the bar; thus permitting the fingers to tear themselves loose from the plates and leaving the plates resting on the rubber founda t-ion in the form of a row in which the individual elements are arranged in proper spaced relation to each other. The lifter may then be used to pick up a second row which is deposited. upon the first row in ferring any desired number of rows each containing a large number of plates in definite spacedrelationto each other; so that the process of assemblingthe reinforcing plates in a tire liner becomes simple and inexpensive.

I claim:

1. An apparatus for layingreinforcing plates in definite. spaced relation to each other in the" manufacture of tire liners, which consists of a container having a row of compartments equal in number to the aforesaid plates and each of a size and shape to receive a stack of such plates, and a lifter having a row of parallel fingers of uniform length projecting from one side thereof, the fingers having the same spacing as that of the plates in the liner.

2. An apparatus for laying reinforcing plates in definite spaced relation to each other in the manufacture of tire liners,

which consists vof acontainer having a row of compartments equal in number to the.

aforesaid plates and each of a size and shape to receive a stack of such plates, and a lifter having a row of parallel fingers of uniform length projecting from one side thereof, the fingers having the same spacing as that of the plates in the liner, each compartment having a yielding cushion in the bottom thereof. 7

3. The method of forming and transferring to a liner rowsj'of plates arranged in definite spaced relation to each other, which consists in forming a row of stacks of such fication.

EDIVARD J. MORAN. 

